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Friday, February 8, 2013

At Thursday’s National Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Benjamin S. Carson,
world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, stepped
up prior to Barack Obama’s speech and said what many of us want to say
on the national stage and he did so with Obama sitting less than ten
feet from him. He blasted “political correctness,” calling it a
“dangerous” threat to free speech and the video has gone viral
throughout the internet.

In demonstrating his disdain for politically correct speech, Carson
said, “We’ve reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk
about what they want to say, because somebody might be offended,” noting
the example of people refraining from saying “Merry Christmas.”

“We’ve got to get over this sensitivity and it keeps people from saying what they really believe.”

He then encouraged ongoing discussions about societal issues and how education is essential in these matters.

Carson even told his own story of how he rose from poverty to
success, sharing intimate details about himself, his parents and his
life early on. He even demonstrated what individuals can do to
demonstrate true charity to others as helping students who are seeking
to advance in the academic world through his Carson Scholars Fund.

He then spoke about taxation and his statements were in direct opposition to Obama’s plans.
“What about our taxation system — so complex there is no one that can
possibly comply with every jot and tittle,” he said. ”When I pick up my
Bible, you know what I see — I see the fairest individual in the
universe — God — and he’s given us a system. It’s called tithe.”
He used this to promote the idea of a flat tax, which I’m all in favor of.

He also took time to speak about health care, which obviously was in
direct opposition to Obamacare as he blasted the notion of sending money
to the large Federal bureaucratic monster. He advocated for health
savings accounts, which I also support.

I thank God for Dr. Carson’s courage and communication skills,
especially when it would be so easy to cave on the national stage. This
is definitely a one of a kind speech and though Barack Obama was
sitting right there and appearing to listen intently, I’m curious if he
actually heard a word that was said or if he even cared. I know it has
been my prayer that God would turn the heart of Barack Obama and those
in Congress in repentance from their sinful policies and that He would
give them wisdom regarding how to govern properly. May He so grant it.

Cory
Booker, the charismatic Democratic mayor of Newark, NJ currently
considering a campaign for the U.S. Senate, enjoys extraordinary media
exposure -- exposure that exceeds that of many top-tier entertainers and
professional athletes. However, that fawning media coverage from CNN to
Vogue Magazine of this mayor rarely reports facts like the increasing
ire among Newark residents over Booker’s practices and the right-wing
political roots of this politician who is generally portrayed as
possessing solid center-left credentials.

Those
right-wing roots, for example, provide an under-examined explanation
for Booker's lashing out at President Obama last May after a campaigning
Obama criticized economic deprivations caused by hedge fund
manipulations when he took Mitt Romney to task for the then GOP
candidate’s tenure as head of venture capital firm Bain Capital.

Journalist
Glen Ford has reported extensively on Booker’s conservative connections
for over a decade, beginning with Booker’s September 2000 New York City
address at the Manhattan Institute, one of America’s leading right-wing
think tanks.

“It’s amazing that most people don’t see this background,” Ford said.

“You
must understand that the Manhattan Institute is not some eclectic
entity,” Black Agenda Report co-founder Ford said. “This is what makes
Cory Booker different from other right-wing Democrats. He comes from the
bosom of the right-wing…he started there.”

Ford’s
coverage includes Booker’s alignment with the conservative school
voucher movement that seeks to siphon government funding from public
schools into corporate and religious coffers – a defunding movement that
has a profound detrimental impact on large numbers of minority students
and minority professionals in public schools.

Favorable
media coverage of Booker explains why most people across New Jersey and
nationwide view him as progressive. That coverage portrays a mayor who
saved a neighbor from a burning building, sustaining second-degree burns
during that rescue. It focuses on him for raising more than
$250-million in donations for projects in his beleaguered city.

“Most
people in Trenton and South Jersey look at Booker as a great mayor
because they see him on CNN and other television shows all the time,”
Trenton, NJ community activist Daryl Brooks said. “But in inner-city
areas of Newark, residents don’t view Booker as a great leader. There is
a feeling that he is more interested in his national and international
image than in doing something for poor people.”

A December 2012 New York Times article
contained rare mainstream media criticism of Booker, citing growing
complaints in Newark that Booker is “a better marketer than mayor.”...

It’s been nearly three months since Jesse Jackson Jr.
resigned from Congress, but now NBC News confirms that Jackson has
signed papers in a plea deal within the past several days.

Jackson’s case is being handled by the US Attorney’s
office in Washington DC. While no public announcement is expected today,
those with knowledge of the investigation believe the loose ends now
deal with Jackson’s wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, and whether or
not she is ultimately charged.

Under the terms of the deal Jackson signed, he pleads
guilty and his fate – as to jail time – would be in the hands of a
federal judge, not yet assigned.

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